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Wry
and unpredictable, ShortMetraje features, for the fourth
year in New York, the most challenging Spanish short films from all regions
in Spain . The series includes the latest work by 2005 Academy Award Nominated
Nacho Vigalondo (7:35 in the morning) and the most recent collaboration
between Daniel Sánchez Arévalo and Julio Medem (Sex
and Lucia). Join us to celebrate the vitality of Spanish short films,
most of them never seen in US before!. All films subtitled in English.
For information on other editions, visit pragda.com.
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AT
THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER |
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Sat
Dec 17: 8:15 pm |
THE
WALTER READE THEATER |
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Sun
Dec 18: 4:15pm |
165
W 65 Street, Plaza Level |
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Mon
Dec 19: 1pm |
(between
Broadway and Amsterdam). New York |
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$10
General public |
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Tel.
212-875-5600 |
$7
Full-time Students with valid photo ID |
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$6
Film Society and Instituto Cervantes members |
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$5
Seniors, Mon-Fri before 6pm |
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$5
Children (ages 6-12) accompanied by an adult |
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LA
RUTA NATURAL Natural Route | Àlex
Pastor | 11 min 2004 |
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of the most internationally acclaimed Spanish short films of the year
and recognized nationally with the Spanish Academy Award nomination, young
Alex Pastor shows us his innovative perspective on time and life. Divad
wakes up after an accident to find himself lost. His home, his wife...
everything is unknown to him. Maybe the answers he needs lie in the past. |
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LA
EXPLICACION The Explanation | Curro
Novallas | 10 min 2005 |
| Marcos
hides, behind a world of graphics & drawings, his fear to confront
his relationship with Andrea. Gustavo Salmeron’s incredible performance
enriches this entertaining yet real story of difficulties and demands
of love. |
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EL
PUNTO CIEGO The Blind Spot | Àlex
Montoya and Raúl Navarro | 10 min 2005 |
| A
vitamin capsule brought to you by the prolific and arty RLUX collective
(Raúl Navarro y Àlex Montoya). Andrea is a young woman who
tries to spend the night on the coach of a circular subway line of a big
city. There she will meet two men, who will change her life drastically. |
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LA
CULPA DEL ALPINISTA The Mountaineer's Guilt
| Daniel Sánchez Arévalo | 14 min 2004 |
Promising
talent Daniel Sánchez Arévalo collaborates with Julio Medem
(Sex and Lucia) in this poetic and eerie film about Ana. She has a growing
phobia about the cold and she can’t stand being near the snow and
is afraid of clouds and wind. Her mother takes her to a small sunny town
by the beach. But the symptoms remain. |
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MINOTAUROMAQUIA
| Juan Pablo Etcheverry | 10 min,
2004 |
Inspired
by Picasso’s work and the myth about the Labyrinth and the Minotaur,
this is a journey through the ins and outs of artistic creation. A narrative
full of metaphors and striking images. As in Etcheverry’s previous
work, plasticine forms are mixed with pictures, oil paintings and Etcheverry’s
own designs, all with a personal quality and aesthetic. |
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LLÉVAME
A OTRO SITIO Take me somewhere else |
David Martín de los Santos | 21 min 2004 |
Jorge
and Patricia are a married couple on a road trip. They have communication
problems and their relationship is going through a period of monotony.
Martin de los Santos takes us to an obscure journey of games and unexpected
truths. |
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CHOQUE
Crash | Nacho Vigalondo |
10 min 2005 |
Academy
Award nominee Vigalondo’s unique sense of humor is shown at its
best in this story of a couple in their late twenties who discovers an
underground drag-racing track. |
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SINTONÍA
Sintonía | Jose Mari Goenaga |
9 min 2005 |
| It’s
not a question of long conversations, of long years of living together.
Sometimes, in a place where people pass each other by, in only a few minutes,
you may find yourself connecting with someone. |
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LA
GALLINA CIEGA Blindman's Bluff
| Isabel Herguera | 7 min 2005 |
| Artist
Isabel Herguera brings us this inspirational animation about a blind man
that accidentally loses his guide-dog. Alone in the dark in a big city,
he discovers that his strength lies in recognizing his own vulnerability. |
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CUCO
GOMEZ-GOMEZ IS DEAD | Francisco Lorite |
10 min 2004 |
| Cuco
Gomez-Gomez has just been found in bed--dead! And every single one of
his neighbors at the live-in hotel has a theory on whodunit and why. Do
you want to see actor-writer-director Francisco Lorite in action? Do not
miss frantic Cuco’s story! |
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PLATICANDO
Chatting | Marisa Lafuente |
25 min 2004 |
Marisa
Lafuente turned out be a documentarian to watch after this sensitive and
intelligent film in which the reality of Islamic terrorism intercuts and
melt with immigration stories in contemporary Madrid. |
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LUMINARIA
| Àlvaro Giménez Sarmiento |
13 min 2005 |
Alvaro
Gimenez Sarmiento surprises us with his dry and brutal graduation work
about Soraya, a woman that visits her eight months old son in a foster
home. That day she receives the news that, given the fact that she is
a drug addict, the baby is on the verge of entering the adoption process. |
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ALBUM BLANCO The White Album |
Félix Viscarret | 10 min 2005 |
Lucas
and Irene met in March, the day when Lucas’ mother got married for
third time. The are together since. She use to talk about her parents,
brothers, he has blank moments. She believes in aliens, and reincarnation.
He believes in The Beatles. |
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ShortMetraje
is part of the film series Spanish Cinema Now
that every year is celebrated at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Spanish
Cinema Now is the only film series in NYC to show the latest
film productions from Spain. Special thanks to Richard Peña, Antonio
Muñoz Molina, Juan Blas Delgado, ICAA and of course all the filmmakers
to support ShortMetraje every year. |
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